Friday, May 05, 2006

It's the end-of-semester crush. The status report on my Faculty Fellowship project was due this past Wednesday, so I was in overdrive working on the draft of my book (in progress on my other blog, see the links at left), writing a number of sections I have yet to post.

I'm off to a Music for People weekend. Some time for creative insanity. I also hope to catch Sunday afternoon's Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert on the way back for the last week of classes.

Dancing In a Classical Concert?

On August 30, 2006, pianist Stephanie Gurga and I did a faculty recital at DePauw University called "The Romantic Cello." As an experiment in bringing in and engaging a wider audience, we wore jeans and exempted everyone from the usual rules of concert etiquette. You can read more on my website and in a story on the DePauw Website, including a video clip. What did the audience think? Read the comments to my morning-after post.

And here are all the posts I wrote on the concert, in order of appearance: